They very much need to put more adds up even though i didn’t play seeing them.
They had plenty of ads on Youtube for Shadowlands and it sold the most copies of any expansion objectively according to numbers, but it also lost as many players as BFA and WoD, if not a little less than WoD. Good advertising isn’t going to make business sense for a product that just plain isn’t up to par.
As an MMORPG, WoW has: comparatively bad world graphics, poor emotes, no real story or character development, etc.
Things even games of equal age either had at launch or in the very least many of them improved on later. WoW went from being the trendsetter to not even being the trendfollower.
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This right here just shows how many people on the forums don’t even play the current expansion, if they did then they would know that NPC in cutscenes can emote and have character development within cinematics. To say things like “no real story” just goes to show how many people on the forums don’t even read or pay attention to the story in dragonflight.
That’s your subjective opinion of the cinematics, but even their voice acting kinda just falls flat… when Alexstrasza is SUPPOSED to feel grief and loss, it just kinda comes across as apathetic and unfeeling?
It has the same energy as:
‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE_sYNVgS-M’
Part of this is just plain the fact that the “Emotes” NPCS can do in cinematics are just kinda window dressing versions of emotes players can do, which, as pointed out; are so limited it HURTS.
Don’t even get me started on the plotholes, dialogue that doesn’t even make sense for several races on either side of the Alliance Horde divide if you run them through so many many of the quests and their written/spoken dialogue, etc.
No offense, but do we really want to advertise a game that effectively has the emotional and humanist presence of a Hallmark holiday movie?
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One single episode of the Honeymooners is vastly superior to the collective work of all major Television networks in the last 20 years.
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old commercials were so bad , even took ppl fron the countries to do it
im a paladin !
im a mageeeeee!
was so lame
I saw an advertisement for MONOPOLY the board game. Like… what? Blizz probly doesnt feel the need to make those advertisements anymore. Wonder how that night elf mohaw guy is doin.
like what they did for dragonflight? lol
People act like wow has no adverts
People don’t care about stories in MMOs; when WoW was popular the story was really easy to completely ignore, and it started becoming unpopular when the story became all up in your face (WotLK, which people think was like part of some golden age of WoW when in reality it was when subs completely plateaued and did not actually grow very much at all—everyone talks about how it had 12 million subscribers but that’s like less than half a million over TBC)
The last time I played an MMO that had a really engrossing story it was The Secret World, which was totally unsuccessful
People forget Wrath was not allowed to release in china until nearly cata. A huge portion of the eastern market was stuck in TBC and likely wasn’t playing.
I’m surprised when people under 40 know who he is!
His cameo on Silver Spoons and Rocky III was 1982
His cameo on Diff’rent Strokes was 1983
Wrestlemania 2 was 1986
And The A-Team went off the air in 1987
He left WWF in 1988
Because they know Zoomers won’t play this game.
They do advertise it all over the place. There were advertisements with celebrities in 2022 for the launch of Dragonflight. They also use streamers/twitch to advertise it. And constant emails to people with bnet accounts, which is pretty much everyone who games.
You have it exactly backwards, given that people cared about it up until the story with the lich king came to an end, and then they tried to make new stories which weren’t as well written. Tons of people quit after WOTLK because the main story from WC3 was over.
Why didn’t they quit earlier when they realized the overwhelming majority of the content in the game had nothing to do with the Lich King?
In Vanilla, my first character was a gnome warlock and there wasn’t anything about the Lich King, and then my character after that was an undead warlock and I don’t remember anything about the Lich King from that either, and then I made a human warlock and there wasn’t anything about the Lich King in the quests I remember from that either. Then TBC happened and I made a blood elf warlock and didn’t see the Lich King
WoW also sold more than WC3 ever did, so plenty of people didn’t care about the story from WC3
This was said with humor. But I wonder about the people who are serious when they say this same thing in earnest.
In my day we didn’t have sell phones or computers. If we wanted the news you had to read a newspaper. If you wanted to learn anything at all you had to read a book. If you wanted to be entertained you had to read a book. This new generations apparently can’t stand to read more than on short paragraph before they turn off.
What’s up with that?
Even if an ad did bring in a new player the game itself likely wouldn’t hold them very long. WoW is pretty close to the bottom of the list as far as new player experiences go, even with all the recent updates.
So honestly why even waste the money when its easier to bring back old players than it is new ones.
Buddy, that’s not one short paragraph. That’s a novel.
A novel of a rant, not entertaining stories or noteworthy news.
There is a big difference between reading a book or the newspaper and reading about someone complaining about something you may or may not find interesting or relevant.
Posting in a Tigersan thread.
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I imagine it’s because WoW is at that point where it’s such an old game that there are more players that played it in the past and quit than currently playing while people that never played it might not be interested in playing a game that is considered old with so much to catch up.
There is also the MMO gameplay and formula that doesn’t hold people for as long as it used to, I know that my friends never looked at me playing WoW and thought that it would be fun to give it a go from gameplay alone.
So there is this grey area that for the most part WoW thrives on returning players, not new, advertisement in general don’t seem to work all that well, better to let the streamers catch the interest of some vets for free.